Confronting the Body

The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Herausgeber: Mills, James H.; Sen, Satadru

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Produktbeschreibung

A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781843310334
• ISBN-10: 1843310333
• Artikelnr.: 22040065

Autorenporträt

Edited by James H. Mills and Satadru Sen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: James H Mills and
Satadru Sen; 1. Body, Text, Nation: Writing the Physically Fit Body in
Post-Colonial India; 2. 'A Parcel of Dummies'? Sport and the Body in Indian
History; 3. Schools, Athletes and Confrontation: The Student Body in
Colonial India, Satadru Sen; 4. Body as Target, Violence as Treatment:
Psychiatric Regimes in Colonial and Post-Colonial India; 5. The Lotah
Emeutes of 1855: Caste, Religion and Prisons in North India in the Early
Nineteenth Century; 6. The Body at Work: Colonial Art Education and the
Figure of the 'Native Craftsman'; 7. Making a Dravidian Hero: The Body and
Identity Politics in the Dravidian Movement; 8. Describing the Body: The
Writing of Sex and Gender Identity for the Contemporary Bengali Woman; 9. A
Perfect 10 - 'Modern and Indian': Representation of the Body in Beauty
Pageants and the Visual Media in Contemporary India; 10. Demographic
Rhetoric and Sexual Surveillance: Indian Middle-Class Advocates of Birth
Control, 1902-1940s